E5200 questions?

[ChrisLandin]

Hiya all,

ive been building a cheap media pc for the front room and the aim was a silentish build which ive got. However im a bit surprised with the temps of the E5200.

Now ive just upgraded from a stock intel heastink to a asaka one with some arctic silver 5 paste and temps idle at 36 degrees but as soon as I fire up say 3 tabs on explorer 8 the temps are shooting up to around 45 on each core! Is this right?

I think I read somewhere that AS5 needs a bit of time to burn in??

Im a bit out the loop on air cooling as my main rig is watercooled and temps there are always low unless benching or gaming or stressing.

Oh yea its at stock settings to, no oc as my board was a cheapy number with no overclocking options

 

[easyrider]

45 is fine

what are the temps when you run prime?

 

[Scon]

45 is fine

what are the temps when you run prime?

Yeh 45 is fine, it's when you get in to the 60's that i'd start worrying.

Any idea on the model of the HSF?

 

[SouthEastBlue]

My old E5200 @ 3.2Ghz on stock volts used to idle around 30 - 35 Celcius depending on room temperature, and used to max out at 51/52 Celcius under 100% load testing.

That was using an old Akasa 965 heat pipe cooler, and MX-2 thermal paste.

Also I'm sure Arctic Silver paste has either a 48 hour or 200 hour time to settle in. Can't remember which one, just remember reading it somewhere. lol

 

[keybaud]

My E5200 is clocked to 3.0 GHz on the stock cooler and has been for the last 2 years. I kept the OEM heatsink, as it was very quiet and got a very good review for this CPU.

As a result of this thread I did check the temps and it's at 85 degrees on both cores at 100% load! Guess I may need to check if the cooler has clogged up with dust, although it may have been like this for ages.

As a side note, the stock temperature of my ATI HD4870 is 85 degrees and this is the temperature it is meant to run at. Don't know why, but guess ATI/AMD had a reason...